Beheading video site shut down

The al-Qaida-linked web site that first posted a video of American civilian Nicholas Berg’s beheading was shut down today by the Malaysian company that hosted it – because it was drawing too much traffic.

A senior officer of the company, Acme Commerce, said in Kuala Lumpur today it was not aware that the site, www.al-ansar.biz, may have been connected to al-Qaida or that offensive material had been posted on it.